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Edgard BLOCHET.

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Edgard BLOCHET. Les Enluminures des Manuscrits Orientaux - turcs, arabes, persans - de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, La Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1926, in-4 paperback, spine fragile. Illustrated with 123 plates in black phototypesetting. Copy enriched with 4 repeated plates in colors. Limited edition of 510 copies, one of 500 numbered on vellum (n°246). The illuminations described here, which belong to the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, cover a period from the middle of the 12th century to around 1770.